Abstract
‘Charlie Chaplin di Ngamplang, 1927’ is an Indonesian-language poem by Australian poet Ian Campbell, and is a humorous meditation upon certain imaginary events that befell Charlie Chaplin at the Dutch colonial era hill station of Ngamplang in West Java in 1927. In historical terms Chaplin did in fact visit the Dutch East Indies three times between 1927 and 1932, including the area around Ngamplang. The poem was included in Campbell’s poetry and prose collection Tak ada Peringatan (Vivid Publishing, 2013). The Indonesian language version of the poem first appeared in 2012 in the literary pages of the Jakarta mass media daily Kompas. An English-language back translation is included here.
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ISSN 1449-2490 | Published by UTS ePRESS | http://portal. epress.lib.uts.edu.au
In historical terms Chaplin did visit the Dutch East Indies three times between 1927 and 1932, including the area around Ngamplang
While Charlie was being brought back to his room in the hotel there was another ‘little difficulty’; his walking stick caught in the revolving doors at the rear of the hotel, snapping in two
Summary
ISSN 1449-2490 | Published by UTS ePRESS | http://portal. ‘Charlie Chaplin di Ngamplang, 1927’ is an Indonesian-language poem by Australian poet Ian Campbell, and is a humorous meditation upon certain imaginary events that befell Charlie Chaplin at the Dutch colonial-era hill station of Ngamplang in West Java in 1927. Pada umumnya pegawai-pegawai dan pelayan-pelayan di hotel Ngamplang ini tidak melaporkan permintaan atau permohonan ‘khusus’ atau ‘luar biasa’ dari tamu ini, ahli dunia film silent di Hollywood.
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